The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Sequence will welcome greater than 88 gamers from over 18 nations to Victoria in January.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 13 December 2024 | Camille Russo
The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Sequence will welcome greater than 88 gamers from over 18 nations to Victoria in January.
To formally open the occasion, native Hume participant and 15-year-old Australian Open wildcard holder Jin Woodman joined Paralympian Heath Davidson in launching the Summer season of Wheelchair Tennis on the Hume Tennis and Group Centre.
The summer season wheelchair occasions embrace the Victorian Wheelchair Tennis Open (ITF1) from 6-10 January, the Melbourne Wheelchair Open (Tremendous Sequence) from 12-17 January and the Australian Open Wheelchair Championships (Grand Slam) from 20-25 January.
“I at all times love popping out to Hume and taking part in within the two weeks main into the AO,” stated Davidson.
“Tennis Australia has a very good grassroots pathway program. Within the final three years we’ve received two World Workforce Cups within the juniors and this 12 months we got here second. It’s a credit score to all of the younger gamers coming by means of this pathway like Jin – he’s fearless on the courtroom and works so arduous.”
Reflecting on his finest 12 months but, Woodman stated: “This 12 months I made the US Open juniors, it was superb. The World Workforce Cup in Turkey was additionally a fantastic expertise travelling on my own with out a mother or father, counting on the coaches and myself.
“The Australian Open goes to be superb contemplating it’s my first one. I’m going to find it irresistible with all of the Aussie followers who will come out to observe us. I’m proud to be representing Australia on dwelling soil.”
Reflecting on the expansion of wheelchair tennis, Chief Tennis Officer Tom Larner stated: “Vital funding from Tennis Australia has gone into the wheelchair participant pathway, with a big give attention to elevated prizemoney on the Australian Open for wheelchair occasions yearly.
“This 12 months noticed file entries within the Australian Wheelchair Summer season Sequence with greater than 100 athletes on web site, and it’s junior gamers like Jin who’re the driving power behind this progress.
“Australia has probably the most junior gamers with an ITF rating, and we presently have 14 gamers inside the elite junior pathway – double the quantity from 5 years in the past. Inclusion is a cornerstone of our sport so there’s so much to be pleased with as we proceed to create alternatives and make investments on this area,” Larner continued.
The Australian Open 2025 will even function the inaugural junior wheelchair event, together with the inaugural wheelchair qualifying occasion for the boys’s, ladies’s and quad attracts.
The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Sequence
| Event | Date | Venue |
| Victorian Wheelchair Tennis Open – ITF1 | 6-10 January 2025 | Hume Tennis and Group Centre, Vic |
| Melbourne Wheelchair Open – Tremendous Sequence | 12-17 January 2025 | Hume Tennis and Group Centre, Vic |
| Australian Open Wheelchair Championships – Grand Slam | 20-25 January 2025 | Melbourne Park, Vic |
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